Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: The President requests your aid in communicating to the citizens of Stroud the eminent satisfaction with which he has received the address and resolutions which they adopted at their public meeting held in the subscription rooms on the 29th of January last.
Notwithstanding the general concert and decided tone of those who, for near two years, have assumed to speak the voice of Europe concerning the struggle in which this country is engaged, to pervert the sympathies of mankind in favor of an insurrection as unnecessary as it is destitute of all moral merit, this government has constantly believed that the common heart of humanity remains unchanged by the flow of time and the vicissitudes of states. For the confirmation of this hope which the inhabitants of Stroud have thus given, you will [Page 150] convey to them the grateful acknowledgments of the President and the American people.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.